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message 1: by Joy D (last edited Jun 06, 2022 10:09AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments I plan to track my reading by country here. Listed in alphabetical order by country.

I began this list in 2021. I am posting my highest rated books only.


message 2: by Joy D (last edited Jun 15, 2025 08:08AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments A

✅Afghanistan
A Thousand Splendid Suns - 5* - My Review
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria - 4* - My Review
A House Without Windows - 4* - My Review
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell - 4* - My Review
Sparks Like Stars - 5* - My Review

✅Albania
Chronicle in Stone: A Novel - 4* - My Review

✅Algeria
This Strange Eventful History - 4* - My Review

-Andorra

✅Angola
A General Theory of Oblivion - 5* - My Review

✅Antarctica (not a country, but worth noting)
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins - 4* - My Review
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night - 5* - My Review
The White Darkness - 4* - My Review
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places - 5* - My Review (also the Arctic and other cold places)

✅Antigua and Barbuda
Mr Loverman - 4* - My Review

✅Argentina
The Honorary Consul - 4* - My Review
In Patagonia - 3* - My Review
The Whispering Land - 4* - My Review

✅Armenia
Three Apples Fell from the Sky - 4* - My Review
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir - 4* - My Review

✅Australia
The Widow and Her Hero - 4* - My Review
Bridge of Clay - 4* - My Review
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - 4* - My Review (Tasmania)
Oscar and Lucinda - 4*- My Review
The Secret River by Kate Grenville - 4* - My Review
The Far Country by Nevil Shute - 4* - My Review
Big Little Lies - 4* - My Review
True History of the Kelly Gang - 4* - My Review
The Strays - 4* - My Review
On The Beach - 4* - My Review
The Yield - 4* - My Review
The Dickens Boy: A Novel - 4* - My Review
Stone Yard Devotional - 4* - My Review
Beyond the Black Stump - 4* - My Review

✅Austria
The Radetzky March - 4* - My Review
A Whole Life - 4* - My Review
The Order of the Day - 4* - My Review
The Third Man - 4* - My Review
The Tobacconist - 4* - My Review

✅Azerbaijan
Mobility - 5* - My Review


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message 4: by Joy D (last edited May 26, 2025 07:00AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments C

-Cabo Verde

✅Cambodia
In the Shadow of the Banyan - 5 stars - My Review
Music of the Ghosts - 4* - My Review

-Cameroon

✅Canada
Unless - 5* - My Review
Hatchet - 4* - My Review
River Thieves - 4* - My Review
Barkskins - 4* - My Review
A Town Called Solace - 4* - My Review
The Robber Bride - 4* - My Review
Sweetland - 4* - My Review
Indian Horse - 5* - My Review
Three Day Road - 4* - My Review
Etta and Otto and Russell and James - 4* - My Review
In Winter I Get Up at Night - 4* - My Review

-Central African Republic

-Chad

✅Chile
Missing - 4* - My Review
Violeta - 4* - My Review
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free - 4* - My Review

✅China
The Keys of the Kingdom - 4.5* - My Review
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China - 4* - My Review
Dragon Seed - 4* - My Review
A Map for the Missing - 4* - My Review
Women of the Silk - 4* - My Review

✅China - Tibet (no longer a separate country but worth noting)
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest - 5* - My Review

✅Colombia
Infinite Country - 4* - My Review
Fruit of the Drunken Tree - 4* - My Review
News of a Kidnapping - 4* - My Review

-Comoros

✅Congo, Democratic Republic of
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives - 5* - My Review

-Congo, Republic of

✅Costa Rica
The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir - 4* - My Review

-Cote d'Ivoire

✅Croatia
The Hired Man - 4* - My Review

✅Cuba
The Distant Marvels - 4* - My Review

✅Cyprus
The Island of Missing Trees - 4* stars - My Review

✅Czechia
By Night Under the Stone Bridge - 4* - My Review
HHhH - 4* - My Review
The Glass Room: A Novel - 4* - My Review


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message 9: by Joy D (last edited Oct 24, 2021 01:33PM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments Room for expansion


message 10: by Joy D (last edited Jul 22, 2024 07:25AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments H

✅Haiti
Breath, Eyes, Memory - 4* - My Review

-Honduras

✅Hungary
Embers - 5* - My Review
The Door - 4* - My Review
Abigail - 4* - My Review


message 11: by Joy D (last edited Aug 02, 2025 07:15AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments I

✅Iceland
Heaven and Hell - 4* - My Review
Independent People - 4* - My Review
Animal Life - 4* - My Review

✅India
Victory City - 5* - My Review
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - 4* - My Review
The Hungry Tide - 5* - My Review
The Space Between Us - 4* - My Review
The Secrets Between Us - 5* - My Review
China Room - 4* - My Review
Shalimar the Clown - 4* - My Review
Sharpe's Tiger - 4* - My Review
The Inheritance of Loss - 4* - My Review
Heat and Dust - 4* - My Review
Family Matters - 5* - My Review
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - 4* - My Review
The Palace of Illusions - 4* - My Review

✅Indonesia
House in Bali - 4* - My Review
Ghostwritten - 4* - My Review
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo - 4.5* - My Review

✅Iran
Song of a Captive Bird - 4* - My Review
Rooftops of Tehran - 4* - My Review
The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel - 4* - My Review
The Lion Women of Tehran - 4* - My Review

✅Iraq
The Girl in Green - 5* - My ReviewWar and Me - 4* - My Review

✅Ireland
The Colony - 5* -My Review
Seven Steeples - 5* - My Review
Nesting - 5* - My Review
The Coast Road - 4.5* - My Review
The Boy from the Sea - 4.5* - My Review
Small Things Like These - 4* - My Review
The Story of Lucy Gault - 4* - My Review
Angela's Ashes - 4* - My Review
Normal People - 4* - My Review
Spill Simmer Falter Wither - 4* - My Review
What Willow Says - 4* - My Review
Solar Bones - 4* - My Review
Pearl - 4* - My Review

✅Israel
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories - 4.5* - My Review
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East - 4* - My Review
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know - 4* - My Review

✅Italy
The Sixteen Pleasures - 4* - My Review
The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova - 4* - My Review
The Marriage Portrait - 4.5* - My Review
Augustus - 4* - My Review
A Soldier of the Great War - 4.5* - My Review
Leonardo da Vinci - 5* - My Review
The Eight Mountains - 4+* - My Review
The Ruby in Her Navel - 4.5* - My Review
The Instrumentalist - 4* - My Review
Beautiful Ruins - 4.5* - My Review


message 15: by Joy D (last edited May 15, 2025 07:38AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments M

-Madagascar

-Malawi

✅Malaysia
The Garden of Evening Mists - 5* - My Review
The Gift of Rain - 5* - My Review
The House of Doors - 4* - My Review

-Maldives

-Mali

-Malta

✅Mauritania
Cold People - 2* - My Review (only partially set in Mauritania)

✅Mauritius
Diego Garcia - 3* - My Review

✅Mexico
Mexican Gothic - 4* - My Review
The Lacuna - 4* - My Review
Into the Beautiful North - 4* - My Review
The Murmur of Bees - 4* - My Review

✅Micronesia
The People in the Trees - 4* - My Review

-Moldova

-Monaco

✅Mongolia
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race - 4* - My Review

✅Montenegro
Catherine the Great and the Small - 4 * - My Review

✅Morocco
The Time In Between - 4* - My Review

-Mozambique

✅Myanmar
The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats - 4 stars - My Review
The Piano Tuner - 5* - My Review


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Joy D | 896 comments O

✅Oman
Celestial Bodies - 4* - My Review


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Joy D | 896 comments Q

✅Qatar
Love from A to Z - 4* - My Review


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Joy D | 896 comments S

-Saint Kitts and Nevis

-Saint Lucia

-Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

✅Samoa
The Last Bookaneer - 4* - My Review

-San Marino

-Sao Tome and Principe

-Saudi Arabia

✅Senegal
The Message - 4* - My Review

-Serbia

-Seychelles

✅Sierra Leone
The Heart of the Matter - 4* - My Review
The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest - 4* - My Review
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection - 4* - My Review

-Singapore

-Slovakia

-Slovenia

-Solomon Islands

✅Somalia
A House in the Sky: A Memoir - 4* - My Review

✅South Africa
Disgrace - 4* - My Review
July's People - 4* - My Review
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - 4* - My Review
Life and Times of Michael K - 4* - My Review

✅South Korea
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - 4* - My Review
We Do Not Part - 4* - My Review

-South Sudan

✅Spain
The Painter of Battles - 5* - My Review
Origin - 4* - My Review
Night Boat to Tangier - 4* - My Review
Sepharad: A Novel - 5* - My Review
Zorro - 4* - My Review
Winter in Madrid - 4* - My Review

✅Sri Lanka
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - 5* - My Review
A Passage North - 5* - My Review
Anil's Ghost - 4.5* - My Review
Island of a Thousand Mirrors - 4* - My Review

✅Sudan
River Spirit - 4* - My Review

✅Suriname
The Boy Between Worlds - 4* - My Review (first half - Suriname, second half - Netherlands)

✅Sweden
Britt-Marie Was Here - 4* - My Review
The Winners - 4.5* - My Review

✅Switzerland
Hotel du Lac - 4* - My Review
The Magic Mountain - 5* - My Review
Einstein's Dreams - 4* - My Review

✅Syria
The Sandcastle Girls - 4* - My Review
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - 5* - My Review


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message 25: by Joy D (last edited Aug 20, 2025 07:55AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments U (Continued)

✅United States
(Books are listed by state - it is a partial list of only the highest rated books)

Alaska:
The Snow Child - 4* - My Review
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet - 4* - My Review

Arizona:
Lost Children Archive - 5* - My Review
Animal Dreams - 4* - My Review

Arkansas:
Summer of My German Soldier - 4* - My Review

California:
The Great Mann - 5* - My Review
Uncanny Valley - 4* - My Review
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - 4* - My Review
Search - 5* - My Review

Colorado:
An Owl on Every Post - 4* - My Review

Connecticut:
Wishin' and Hopin' - 2* - My Review

Georgia:
The Sweetness of Water - 4* - My Review

Hawaii:
The Unhoneymooners - 2* - My Review

Idaho:
Train Dreams - 4* - My Review
Idaho - 3* - My Review

Illinois:
Native Son - 4* - My Review

Indiana:
Zorrie - 4* - My Review

Iowa:
Home - 4* - My Review
Remembering Laughter - 4* - My Review

Kentucky:
Country Dark - 4* - My Review
The Patron Saint of Liars - 4* - My Review

Maine:
Olive Kitteridge - 4* - My Review

Maryland:
Three Days in June - 4* - My Review

Massachusetts:
Alena - 4*- My Review

Michigan:
Tom Lake - 5* - My Review

Minnesota:
Virgil Wander - 3* - My Review
The Sentence - 4* - My Review

Mississippi:
The Prophets - 3* - My Review

Montana:
The Power of the Dog - 3* - My Review

Nebraska:
Dalva: A Novel - 4* - My Review

New Hampshire:
Where Butterflies Wander - 4* - My Review

New Jersey:
Unsheltered - 3* - My Review
The Silver Linings Playbook - 3* - My Review

New York:
Deacon King Kong - 4* - My Review
What I Loved - 5* - My Review
The Dakota Winters - 4* - My Review

North Carolina:
The Last Ballad - 4 stars - My Review

North Dakota:
The Night Watchman - 4 stars - My Review
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - 4 stars - My Review

Ohio:
Little Fires Everywhere - 2 stars - My Review

Oklahoma:
The Removed - 3 stars - My Review

Pennsylvania:
Such a Fun Age - 3* - My Review

Tennessee:
Now Is Not the Time to Panic - 4.5* - My Review
Flight Behavior - 4 stars - My Review
Suttree - 4 stars - My Review

Texas:
Conspiracy of Fools - 5 stars - My Review
How to Walk Away - 3 stars - My Review

Utah:
Recapitulation - 4* - My Review

Vermont:
Afterlife - 3* - My Review

Virginia:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver - 4* - My Review
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates - 4* - My Review
Demon Copperhead - 4* - My Review

Wisconsin:
A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold - 4* - My Review


message 26: by Joy D (last edited Oct 14, 2024 08:07AM) (new)

Joy D | 896 comments U (Continued)

-Uruguay

✅Uzbekistan
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road - 4* - My Review


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-Vanuatu

✅Vatican City
Conclave - 4* - My Review
My Father's House - 5* - My Review

✅Venezuela
Doña Barbara: A Novel - 4* - My Review
It Would Be Night in Caracas - 4* - My Review

✅Vietnam
Absolution - 4* - My Review.
Going After Cacciato - 5* - My Review
The Mountains Sing - 4* - My Review
The Sympathizer - 5* - My Review

-Virgin Islands (British) (British possession)

✅Virgin Islands (US) (US possession)
Land of Love and Drowning - 4* - My Review
The Marriage of Opposites - 4* - My Review


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